Abstract
Today a lot of Japanese local governments pay attention to public sector evaluation system Establishing public sector evaluation system increases the efficiency and effectiveness of government which is part of the impetus for implementing results-based government.
The purpose of this paper is to consider how local government establishes program evaluation system linked with comprehensive plan after the introduction of project evaluation system.
There are three viewpoints in program evaluation. The first is the benchmarking, the systematic comparison of one organization to another with the aim of mutual improvement. The second is the effectiveness, the extent to which the outputs of a project meet the citizen's needs and expectations. The third is the multi criteria analysis, setting priorities in the projects by means of comparing with some projects from multi-criteria.
Establishing program evaluation system linked with comprehensive plan requires two components. One is the linkage with the master-plan structure. As the long-term policy document for local government, the master-plan is both a statement of purpose and guideline of general direction to desired conditions. The other is the linkage with the short-term action planning process which demands to compare with some projects from multi-criteria.
